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A Japanese man has been arrested after he sent his severed little finger to the country's prime minister.

Yoshihiro Tanjo, 54, a leader of a right-wing group, filmed himself as he cut off the top part of his finger and included the DVD and a protest letter in his package to Shinzo Abe.

He was unhappy that Mr Abe stayed away from the Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo on the anniversary of Japan's surrender in the Second World War.

"I thought they would ignore me if I just sent the letter, so I put my little finger in as well," Kyodo news agency quoted the man as telling police.

Mr Abe has shunned the shrine since becoming prime minister to avoid offending those in China and Korea who see it as a symbol of Japanese military occupation.

Police said the unemployed Tanjo, who heads a right-wing group in the western city of Kurashiki, was charged with intimidation tactics.

"In the DVD there were very graphic images of him chopping off a part of his finger, which he had filmed himself," a Kurashiki police spokesman said.

"The man is detained here with part of his finger gone, cut at the first joint, I'd say."

A snippet of Tanjo's DVD aired on Japanese television showed him sitting solemnly in a traditional kimono and reading from a scroll. A large Japanese flag hung behind him.